Just snarl, baby! Raiders’ Jon Gruden gets into the...

1of4Jon Gruden and the Raiders are the subject of this season’s “Hard Knocks” series on HBO.Photo: HBO

2of4Derek Carr and the Raiders are the subject of this season’s “Hard Knocks” series on HBO.Photo: HBO

3of4Antonio Brown and the Raiders are the subject of this season’s “Hard Knocks” series on HBO.Photo: HBO

4of4HBO will have plenty of angles to explore with the Raiders during this year’s “Hard Knocks” series. The first episode will be broadcast Aug. 6.Photo: Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle 2018

Jon Gruden and the camera have a good relationship.

HBO on Tuesday released three photos to promote “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Oakland Raiders,” and the one that stands out is the one-eyebrow-raised, “what are you looking at?” scowl offered by the Oakland head coach — whose countenance has earned him the nickname “Chucky” after the doll come to life in the horror-movie series “Child’s Play.”

Quarterback Derek Carr and wide receiver Antonio Brown, expected to be Carr’s new favorite target this season, also are included in the promotional handouts.

The Raiders open training camp Friday in Napa, and HBO plans to air the first of its five “Hard Knocks” episodes Aug. 6.

“If you’re a fan of football or great storytelling, ‘Hard Knocks’ with the Oakland Raiders is going to be must-see television,” said Peter Nelson, executive vice president of HBO Sports, in a June statement that announced the 14th season of the Emmy Award-winning show. “We are so grateful to this storied franchise for opening up its doors and allowing HBO and NFL Films to spend the summer with the Raiders in what promises to be a compelling and engaging training camp.”

HBO will deploy a crew of 30 to go behind the scenes of virtually every aspect of the Raiders’ training camp — practice fields, coach and meeting rooms and hotel rooms are all fair game for the show.

The Raiders were long rumored to be one of the likely teams to be featured on this year’s “Hard Knocks.”

In addition to Gruden, a coach-turned-TV-analyst-turned-coach who is entering the second season of his return to Oakland, HBO has a buffet of story lines to pursue. This is expected to be the team’s last season in the East Bay before moving to Las Vegas, Mike Mayock is in his first season as an NFL general manager, Brown arrives from Pittsburgh as one of the most prolific receivers in the NFL, and Brown will have Vontaze Burfict as one of his new teammates. Burfict knocked Brown out of a 2016 playoff game with a blow to the head.

Mike Lerseth has worked for The San Francisco Chronicle since May 2000. Originally hired as a copy editor, he spent more than a decade working as a supervisor in Production before returning to the newsroom in June 2013 as one of The Chronicle’s two assistant sports editors. In that role, Mike oversees the paper’s NFL, Colleges, NBA, NHL, horse racing and high school sports coverage – with a dash of auto racing thrown in, too.

A seventh-generation Californian and married father of four, Mike began his newspaper career in 1982. Prior to The Chronicle, he held management positions at the Vallejo Times-Herald and Oakland Tribune and was also a news editor at the Contra Costa Times.